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Thursday, October 8, 2015

President Barack Obama’s deputies are quietly hacking a gap through immigration regulations to allow them to import hundreds of thousands of university-trained foreign workers for jobs sought by American college grads.
“They’re bending immigration law until it almost breaks,” says Ian Smith, a lawyer at the Immigration Reform Law Institute. The Obama-hack, he added, should be fixed by Congress or a judge
The regulatory hack is part of Obama’s broad immigration-boosting alliance with Fortune 500 Companies and the GOP’s establishment. In 2013 and 2014, most — but not all — of his prior amnesty and immigration plans were blocked by voters and judges, despite furious lobbying of the GOP by business.
If Obama succeeds, he would make life tougher for young and middle-aged American graduates, who are already facing wage-cutting competition from the roughly 1 million white-collar guest-workers that the U.S. government allows to live in the United States. The extra foreign graduates would also deter young Americans from high-tech careers, and provide the Democratic Party with more donations and more voters.
But Obama’s hack would also spotlight a large opportunity for any GOP 2016 candidate eager to win votes from America’s young college-grads, their parents and the hard-pressed professional sector. So far, only Donald Trump has seized the opportunity by promising to make foreign guest-workers more expensive to hire. If he is elected, and reforms the H-1B program, he’d likely transfer roughly 600,000 guest-worker jobs to American graduates.
That’s almost equal to the number of Americans who graduate each year from college with skilled degrees.
Basically, Obama’s regulatory hack would convert a long-standing bureaucratic band-aid into a process for printing extra work-permits.
The decision has not been announced, but is being finalized by officials at the Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security, Smith told Breitbart News.

Feds push forward with controversial health rule about computer use.

The Obama administration is moving ahead with controversial new rules that require doctors to switch to electronic health records or face fees, resisting calls from both parties to delay implementation.
Federal health officials said the final rules released Tuesday will make “significant changes" in the "meaningful use" electronic health records program, such as lowering the number of standards each provider must meet and allowing providers to apply for hardship exemptions.
But the administration will not delay what it calls "Stage 3" of the records program, a move that is already angering vocal Republicans like Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), who have repeatedly called for a delay of a year or more. “The administration has a tin ear,” Alexander, the chairman of the Senate’s health committee, said in a statement Tuesday. “They’ve missed a golden opportunity to develop bipartisan support in Congress... Instead, they’ve rushed ahead with a rule against the advice of some of the nation’s leading medical institutions and physicians.”
The finalized rule does offer a 90-day period for additional comment, which would give some extra time for providers, said Dr. Patrick Conway, chief medical officer at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Conway told reporters Tuesday that it was too late to “separate the various rules” and that adjusting the timeline for one piece of the program would negatively impact the rest.
“It’s entirely likely that we would have penalized thousand of providers,” he said. “We’re getting to the same place with just a different administration method. If additional improvements are needed for stage 3, we can make those next year.”
The changes are intended to make it easier for providers to meet the tougher health IT standards, which were announced in April. Those standards drew fierce opposition from more than 100 lawmakers of both parties, who have urged the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to push back its timeline.
The government has put out several sets of rules, intended to help physicians and hospitals make the leap in stages.
It’s an attempt to move away from a paper-based system that depends on a doctor’s handwriting and paper copies of files – and one that could become a major part of Obama’s health legacy.
Groups like the American Academy of Family Physicians have said many of its providers’ issues with electronic health records are the result of the technology itself.
“We believe this is the fault of the vendors and their lack of accountability while reaping huge profits from the HITECH act,” the group’s president, Dr. Robert Wergin, wrote in a statement hours before the rules were announced.
“Vendors, not providers, must be held fiscally accountable for not yet achieving an appropriate level of interoperability.”

How Much Tolerance is Too Much?

This is not the America I know. Our culture that has always been a shining beacon for the world has been toppled, broken, crushed. It started long ago with a loss of pride in our country and a loss of individual responsibility. Those in our country with a lack of moral clarity bordering on the criminal have been allowed to overtake our institutions from academia to politics. The economic and moral support given to the charlatans has been given by an underclass whose sole purpose is to take from others and those of us who are going about our day to day lives trying just to get by. They find themselves without the clarity to think about such things as freedom, achievement, values or morals.
Crime and violence has been the response to the devaluing of the currency of morality. What was unthought-of 20 years ago is now commonplace. Our cities, mostly under Democratic control have become war zones, law enforcement is being stalked and ambushed, and the Obama administration has embraced the thug culture by actively criticizing law enforcement.
It is Obama who has caused a great deal of the turmoil that we see today. From the “Black Liberation Theology” taught in a church he attended for twenty years but ostensibly never heard the denigration of America while there, to Frank Marshall Davis his communist mentor while growing up, our Community Organizer has always had a deep seated bias against any authority, particularly white authority.
With a Department of Justice used for the implementation of revenge type social justice this bias was allowed to blossom into the full time bias we observe today. Holder discussed race only as far as blaming whites for the challenges blacks face even going so far as to call us cowards who would not discuss race. But his cowardice and bias was on display when he cancelled the Philadelphia Black Panther case. It showed that Holder was nothing more than one of Obamas thugs used to push a progressive socialist agenda.
Law enforcement has been forced to back off any situation that may be construed as volatile for fear of the federal government and the media creating a circus out of any decision law enforcement makes that the PC crowd does not agree with. Under Obama, Holder, and the media, the destruction of the rule of law has been ongoing for six years and is a fundamental building block for the chaos to come. If the chaos breaks down what is left of our cultural society, the radicals will be making the rules and deciding who will prosper under an “ends justifies the means” society. It is to be expected from an administration that has flaunted the rule of law, ignored both the judicial and legislative branches of government to rule by executive order and has ignored the will of the country as a matter of routine. We have a President who lives in his own narcissist reality, claiming the economy is fine, and we are well loved by all in the world.
The customs, principles, traditions and moral values of our country is what makes us who we are. These teachings of religious principles have been overtaken by those in the politically correct movement. The Ten Commandments were a foundation to base the etiquette and conduct for many generations. The expectation of generally good conduct was within our society. Today things have changed. We use scantily clad women to sell hamburgers, children can use words to their parents that would have caused stern discipline in days past, and everyone except the white heterosexual male is a victim. Unwed mothers are given everything they need to live a life of dependence with no input from the babys’ father, and the taxpayer is made to foot the bill. &2% of black children and 30% of white children are illegitimate. But we have no one to blame but ourselves. If we allow the media, and progressives to tell us that traditional values and morality are not moral absolutes and that what is or is not moral is a personal decision, this will continue. In schools, students learn values clarification, undermining both parents and religious teachings. Where does this lead? It is one of the reasons why, in a great many states a teenage girl can now get an abortion with parental consent with the assistance of the school she attends. It is why schools have bowls of condoms in the nurses office so the students can pick one up whenever they like without any questions. We live in a country now where more and more people are being placed in positions where they must depend on the government for help, where more small businesses have closed than have opened, and where people are being told by the media only what the government wants them to know.
The different agencies of this government have taken it upon themselves with the blessings of this administration to pass regulations with the full force of law that have never been voted upon in Congress. Both the Democrats and Republicans are to blame for allowing the executive branch the powers given to Congress, allowing them to pass laws and then charge those who break these laws and levying enormous fines without benefit of trial. This allows our government to be accountable to no one.
Tolerance is no longer expected by those on the right. The progressives speak of tolerance, but only of the opinions and “truths” that they hold dear. There is a simple test to show how all encompassing this thought control is. Go into any school and mention God. You know what the response would be. We now are so tolerant that we allow satanic displays next to the manger during Christmas. To be honest in some places we can’t say Christmas anymore, it has to be Happy Holidays. Stores that require Happy Holidays do not get my business. The tolerance expected of the American people is reaching a breaking point. What of the father of three kids who wakes up in the middle of the might worrying about how he is going to feed his children the next day without a job. Or the family who has to pack up the belongings they have and store them with friends until they can find a place to stay. How can either of them explain to the children that most of the jobs since the last collapse have gone to illegals, and there is no work to be found. And how can you explain to these same children that Obama refuses to deport these illegals until the job market improves.
Tolerance can only go so far. This country was based on certain values, and tolerance was one of the. But tolerance stops at the barrier of social degeneracy, tyranny, and victims of their own stupidity.

The Rachel Dolezal-ation of the Oregon Killer

Here's the narrative: mass killers are almost always white men. The Daily Kos recently published a piece with this headline: "How come we can't tell the truth about the White Mass Killer Problem?" It asks, "Just what the fracking hell is the matter with all these mass-murdering white people?" Certainly mass killers are almost always men. But they're not almost always white men. Overrepresented? Perhaps. But almost always white? No.

Chris Harper Mercer walked into Oregon's Umpqua Community College and killed nine people, wounding nine more. On a dating site, Mercer, whose father is white and mother is black, referred to himself as "mixed race."
The Los Angeles Times implied that Mercer was white. The Times, in a sub-headline, said he had "white supremacy leanings." The original article said: "A federal law enforcement source familiar with the investigation said, though, that authorities had obtained some of Harper-Mercer's writings, as well as a note he left behind, suggesting that he supported white-supremacist causes and opposed organized religion." The Times later changed the solitary law enforcement source to "two" sources, but added a line stating, "However, he identified as mixed-race on a dating website and lived with his black mother."
As to non-white mass killers, Selwyn Duke, writing in American Thinker, cited a Mother Jones Magazine compilation of data on mass shootings from 1982 through, at the time of Duke's writing, September 16, 2013 -- after the Washington Navy Yard murders. Duke wrote:
"Of the last 20 mass killings of that period, 9 were perpetrated by non-whites.
"That would be 45 percent, which exceeds non-whites' 37 percent share of the population.
"Of the last 30 mass killings, 11 were committed by non-whites -- right at the 37 percent mark.
"And what if we go all the way back to 1982? We then have 66 mass killings in which the races of the perpetrators were known, and 22 of them, or one-third, were at the hands of non-whites. Note here that America's demographics have been changing, with non-whites comprising only about 20 percent of the population in 1982; thus, if we consider an approximate average non-white population of 28.5 percent during the 31-year period in question, it appears that, again, mass murderers are slightly disproportionately non-white."
This brings us back to Mercer and his race -- at least as defined by some major media outlets.
Now President Barack Obama, of course, is regularly described as America's first black president or America's first "African-American" president. His father was a black man from Africa, his mother a white woman from Kansas. Still, Obama is rarely referred to in the media as multi-racial or biracial. The day after his 2008 election, for example, the Associated Press described the coast-to-coast jubilation after "TV news announced the Illinois senator had been elected the first black president."
CBS News, in an article headlined "'Yes We Did': Black Americans Rejoice," wrote: "People danced in the streets, wept, lifted their voices in prayer and brought traffic to a standstill. From the nation's capital to Los Angeles, Americans celebrated Barack Obama's victory and marveled that they lived to see the day that a black man was elected president."
The BBC said: "Democratic Senator Barack Obama has been elected the first black president of the United States, prompting celebrations across the country."
Things got a bit more complicated when George Zimmerman, the Florida neighborhood watchman, shot and killed black teenager Trayvon Martin. At first, media outlets called Zimmerman "white." The Associated Press wrote: "Martin was black, and Zimmerman was white."
But then, quite inconveniently, media outlets discovered that while Zimmerman's father is white, his mother was born in Peru and raised in Mexico. So CNN and other media outlets decided on "white Hispanic."
American teen tennis star Madison Keyes, with one black and one white parent, says, "I don't really identify myself as white or African-American." But that did not stop Serena Williams, however, from ignoring her preference. "It's good to see another American, another African-American, in the semifinals playing so well," said Williams.
Similarly, golf star Tiger Woods, whose ethnicity includes Caucasian, black, American Indian and Asian, calls himself "Cablinasian." Yet when he won his first master, the media instantly dubbed him the first "African-American" to win that coveted tournament.
It all gets so complicated. But back the Oregon killer.
Again, after the Oregon shooting, most media outlets -- if they referred to his race at all -- described him as "mixed," as Mercer indicated on the aforementioned dating site. But if Obama, with one black parent and one white parent is "black" or "African-American," why isn't Mercer?
The media are often accused -- by the eternally offended crowd -- of intentionally "undermining the image of blacks." In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. The media lean over backwards to avoid any hint of anti-black sentiment. In the case of Mercer, a man with one black parent and one white parent, the narrative of mass-killers-are-almost-always-white caused the media great difficulty. But they tried their best.
After all, Rachel Dolezal, the white former NAACP chapter head who pretended to be black, says we're whatever race we think we are.

Wyoming High School Bans Patriotism!

The greatest revolutions come out of the most unlikely places. Consider the administration at Jackson Hole High School in Wyoming.

Proving that there is a razor-thin line between nonsense and cataclysmic brilliance, the administrators there have decided to cancel “America Day” on behalf of a suffering student body.
America Day is a longstanding tradition at the high school, celebrating homecoming in a way that doubles as a celebration of patriotism. Students wear red, white, and blue colors to class, wave American flags around, and generally take pride in their country. Awful, right?
“Many different students could have felt singled out,” said Activities Director Mike Hansen. “We’re trying to be inclusive and safe, make everyone feel welcome.”
Gee, who felt targeted? Is there a heavy concentration of British loyalists in Jackson Hole, still hoping that the crown will rise again? No wonder the left hates the Tea Party. Redcoats aside, if you’re an American who feels unsafe when confronted with the flag, you may want to consider homeschooling. Buy yourself a rigid plastic bubble, get inside, and lock the door. There you’ll be safe from not just patriotism, but also McDonalds, sidewalks, and menacing birds. Unwilling to abide by this decision, several students showed up to school flaunting the colors of the flag and generally making everyone feel all squirmy and unsafe.
God, don’t these students even recognize their American privilege? One Facebook user said she was thrilled with the school’s decision. “Unchecked nationalism is not a great thing,” she said, “and has historically resulted in gross atrocities here and elsewhere.” Yes, there are few things more terrifying than Americans celebrating their patriotism. Historically, this devotion to country has led to such “gross atrocities” as American independence, the end of slavery, the fall of the Third Reich, and the worldwide spread of democracy. When will it end?
If you don’t think this is a glimpse into the future of this country, you need to check the prescription on your rose-colored glasses. The left is working overtime to make sure this country is overrun by immigrants and refugees by the middle of the 21st century. And these poor individuals will not be pressured to adopt the norms of their new culture. No, no. Instead, we will be asked (and then forced) to change our culture to suit the new arrivals. Christianity, American patriotism, and Christmas are out; Islam, rainbow flags, and undocumented citizens are in. None of those things, after all, ever made anyone feel unsafe.-

The House beat back an attempt Wednesday to dismantle the committee probing the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attacks as Republicans rallied around the controversial probe just two weeks before former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is slated to testify before it.
Democrats have accused the Select Committee on Benghazi of being little more than a political attack machine designed to derail Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign, and have seized on comments by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy as evidence. ep. Louise Slaughter, New York Democrat, proposed disbanding the panel, but Republicans ruled that out of order and then voted along party lines, 240-183, to shoot down an appeal.